The statistics on deaths by vaccination status published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are not appropriate for understanding the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines, the UK’s statistics regulator has said.
The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) on Monday published its response to four researchers, acknowledging their concerns that the unvaccinated population was likely undercounted in the sample used by the ONS dataset.
It means the calculated mortality rate of the unvaccinated could be higher than it actually was, giving the illusion that the vaccines saved more lives than it may have done.
The ONS used the number of deaths in England—involving and not involving COVID-19—and a large population sample to work out mortality rates….